Author: Archibald John LittlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Gleanings from Fifty Years in China
Author: Archibald John LittlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
The Booklist
Author: A.L.A. Booklist
Author: The Dial
Author: The Geographical Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1630
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Fixing Landscape
Author: Corey ByrnesPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231547129
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
In 1994, workers broke ground on China’s Three Gorges Dam. By its completion in 2012, the dam had transformed the ecology of the Yangzi River, displaced over a million people, and forever altered a landscape immortalized in centuries of literature and art. The controversial history of the dam is well known; what this book uncovers are its unexpected connections to the cultural traditions it seems to sever. By reconsidering the dam in relation to the aesthetic history of the Three Gorges region over more than two millennia, Fixing Landscape offers radically new ways of thinking about cultural and spatial production in contemporary China. Corey Byrnes argues that this monumental feat of engineering can only be understood by confronting its status as a techno-poetic act, a form of landscaping indebted to both the technical knowledge of engineers and to the poetic legacies of the Gorges as cultural site. Synthesizing methods drawn from premodern, modern, and contemporary Chinese studies, as well as from critical geography, art history, and the environmental humanities, Byrnes offers innovative readings of eighth-century poetry, paintings from the twelfth through twenty-first centuries, contemporary film, nineteenth-century British travelogues, and Chinese and Western maps, among other sources. Fixing Landscape shows that premodern poetry and visual art have something urgent to tell us about a contemporary experiment in spatial production. Poems and paintings may not build dams, but Byrnes argues that the Three Gorges Dam would not exist as we know it without them.
Booklist
Author: All the World
Author: D, Society. E, Geography. 1912
Author: William Swan SonnenscheinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description